Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".
Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
 Binbou Shimai Monogatari |
Buy |
The anime centers around two sisters - Kyou (age 15) and Asu (age 9) - whose mother died from an illness and whose father, heavily in debt, mysteriously disappeared. Now they are living in a small and miserable apartment from the few money the older sister gets for her part-time job. But as long as they have each other and are supported by kind people they continue their every-day life never losing the bright smiles on their faces nor their strong spirit. |
| D | ||
| Detective Academy Q | See Tantei Gakuen Q | |
| Detective School Q | See Tantei Gakuen Q | |
| F | ||
 Fruits Basket |
Buy |
Tooru Honda is a 16-year old girl living in a tent in the nearby mountain woods. Her father died when she was very young and her mother had just recently died in a car accident. Not wanting to put her grandfather (on her father's side) out while his house is being renovated, she told him she would stay with friends so no one knows she's living in a tent. In the meantime, she goes to school and works her part-time job on a cleaning crew so that she can pay her high school tuition (in Japan, high school is like college in the US). |
| Furuba | Buy | See Fruits Basket |
| Furuutsu Basuketo | Buy | See Fruits Basket |
| K | ||
 Kamichu! |
Buy | In a quiet village town, the supernatural and ordinary coexist in a quiet harmony. And then one day, a normal junior high school girl named Hitotsubashi Yurie tells two of her school friends that she has suddenly become a god last night. But she still has problems to get the boy she likes to even remember her name... |
| Kokoro Library | See Kokoro Toshokan | |
 Kokoro Toshokan |
Kokoro is very close to her two older sisters. Besides living together, they all work as librarians at the Kokoro Library, hidden away behind a mountain and quite a ways from town. Kokoro is the youngest with a strange way of looking at things. Aruto is the middle sister is into cooking and proves to be the most realistic of the three. The oldest sister is Lina, who is always looking after the other two. But they are family and together, they always manage to have fun at what ever they doing. |
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| P | ||
 Piano |
Buy |
A slice-of-life story about Nomura Miu, a second class middle school girl who has been playing the piano for six years already. She is a very quiet girl; there's a senior in her school who she secretly admires and likes. Learn what happens with her family, her cat, her best friend Yuki at school, and her piano teacher - and watch her life experiences being depicted by the rhythm of the tunes she plays with her piano, such as happy times being with friends and family, not to mention love of course. |
| Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart | Buy | See Piano |
| Poor Sisters Story | Buy | See Binbou Shimai Monogatari |
| T | ||
 Tantei Gakuen Q |
A teenage Kyu is quite fascinated by the mystery shows that appear on TV, when one afternoon he accidentally bumps into a man coming out of a bank, and money flies everywhere. Falsely accused of taking a 10,000-yen-note, he is helped by Minami Megumi (Meg) who has a photographic memory, and Kyu is able to sleuth out where the missing bill went. Later that evening, the man whom Kyu bumped into earlier dies at a nearby construction site, and it falls upon Kyu and Megumi to figure out the circumstances of his unexpected death. |
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| W | ||
 Winter Garden |
Watch |
This is sweet and bitter love story of Dejiko who are grown up. The story begins on the Christmas day. Dejiko or Di Gi Carat is working part-time at a bakery shop. On her way from the shop, she happens to meet a young guy, Senba Taokuo at a park. Then, she meets him again in a town. While Dejiko begins to care for Tako and she's looking forward meet him again, Takuo drops in at her shop.... Whether will she succeed in love? (source from Animeinfo) |
| かみちゅ! (Japanese) | Buy | See Kamichu! |
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